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 NEW! Between Certain Death and a Possible FutureQueer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis |
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This … | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | 368 | 2021 | View |
 In Search of a Better WorldA Human Rights Odyssey |
A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human … | Payam Akhavan | 401 | 2017 | View |
 The Legacy of Tiananmen Square |
More than 20 years after the Tiananmen Square uprising, Michel Cormier, CBC Television’s former China correspondent, examines the still-born legacy of the Tiananmen Square student protests … | Michael Cormier | 240 | 2013 | View |
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From NEW! Between Certain Death and a Possible FutureAn Introduction |
The editor of the collection frames introduces the volume by exploring his youthful feelings about his sexuality, and the onset of the AIDS epidemic. | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From Prologue |
The introduction describes an encounter between the author and a man named Xi Xin Zhu, whose home was destroyed as a result of China’s rapid economic development. The author discusses the … | Michael Cormier | 6 | 2013 | $0.60 Add |
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From The Knowledge of Suffering |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan begins by recounting his own experiences coming to Canada from Iran as a result of the upheval of the 1970s. He interweaves personal … | Payam Akhavan | 76 | 2017 | $9.12 Add |
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From The Pursuit of Global Justice |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan begins by recalling his experiences as a human rights lawyer in The Hague. He describes notable cases he was involved in and how it shaped his … | Payam Akhavan | 85 | 2017 | $10.20 Add |
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From Wang Juntao’s ExileFrom: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square Collection: Immigrating to Canada |
This chapter begins with the story of a Chinese exile named Wang Juntao, who was a student leader during the 1989 uprising and now lives in New York. The author goes on to discuss the legacy of … | Michael Cormier | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
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From NEW! What Survival Means |
In this chapter, the author reflects on their time in Los Angeles in the 1990s, and her friendship with someone who was dying of AIDS. | Keiko Lane | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From Sun Yat-sen’s Unfinished Dream |
This chapter begins with the story of Sun Yat-sen, the first president of the Republic of China. The chapter goes on to provide a historical account of the overthrow of the Qing dynasty and the … | Michael Cormier | 20 | 2013 | $2.00 Add |
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From NEW! Surviving My Cousin |
In this essay, the author writes about his childhood relationship with his close cousin Dee, who was also gay, and Dee’s death of AIDS-related penumonia in 1998. He posits that Dee’s … | Bryan M. Holdman | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From The Will to Intervene |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan discusses efforts by the international community to respond to human rights abuses an atrocities. He provides a history of UN peacekeeping … | Payam Akhavan | 61 | 2017 | $7.32 Add |
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From NEW! Class of ’88 |
This chapter explores the author’s feelings about AIDS as a young man; he believed that if he did not admit he was gay, he would not contract the disease. He also believed that, since the … | Roberto Gonzalez | 9 | 2021 | $0.90 Add |
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From Mao’s Democracy |
This chapter begins with a brief account of Mao’s rise to power in China at the end of World War Two. It goes on to provide a historical account of his rise to power and the rise of the … | Michael Cormier | 21 | 2013 | $2.10 Add |
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From The Oneness of Humankind |
In this reading, human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan discusses the efforts of people to come together and fight human rights abuses. The chapter includes a discussion of human rights in Afghanistan … | Payam Akhavan | 70 | 2017 | $8.40 Add |
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From NEW! Hockey Night in Canada |
The author recalls the death of a co-worker from AIDS, how a group of gay friends cared for one of their own who was dying of AIDS while his family watched Hockey Night in Canada, and his own … | Berend McKenzie | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
